Man Is Not A Slave To His Thoughts And Actions

"Man can reign over his own life;

can be lord over himself.

Until he does so reign, his life is unsatisfactory and imperfect.

His spiritual dominion is the empire of the mental forces of which his nature is composed.

The body has no causative power.

The ruling of the body—that is of appetite and passion—is the discipline of mental forces.

The subduing, modifying, redirecting, and transmitting of the antagonizing spiritual elements within, is the wonderful and mighty work which men must, sooner or later, undertake.

For a long time man regards himself as the slave of external forces, but there comes a day when his spiritual eyes open and he sees that he has been a slave this long time to none and nothing but his own ungoverned, unpurified self.

For that day, he rises up, and, ascending his spiritual throne, he no longer obeys his desires, appetites, and passions as their slave, but henceforth rules them as his subjects.

The mental Kingdom through which he has been want to wonder as a puling begger and a whipped serf, he now discovers is his by right of lordly self—control—his to set in order, to organize and harmonize, to abolish, it's dissensions and painful contradictions, and bring it to a state of peace.

This rising up and exercising his rightful spiritual authority, he enters the company of those kingly ones who in all ages have conquered and attained, who have overcome ignorance, darkness, and mental suffering, and have ascended into Truth."

James Allen